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Novelist, playwright, film actor, martial artist, and political
commentator, Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) was arguably the most famous
person in Japan at the time of his death. Henry Scott Stokes, one
of Mishima's closest friends, was the only non-Japanese allowed to
attend the trial of the men involved in Mishima's spectacular
suicide. In this insightful and empathetic look at the writer,
Stokes guides the reader through the milestones of Mishima's
meteoric and eclectic career and delves into the artist's major
works and themes. This biography skillfully and compassionately
illuminates the achievements and disquieting ideas of a brilliant
and deeply troubled man, an artist of whom Nobel Laureate Yasunari
Kawabata had said, "A writer of Mishima's caliber comes along only
once every two or three hundred years."